Conversations I’d Like To Have
By Mitch Berg
Roughly a fifth of American adults don’t want to have children:
Our estimate of the number of childfree people is much higher than past national studies, which placed the percentage between 2% and 9%. This likely happened because our measurement focuses on a person’s desire to have children, not their ability. This is important because a person can be childfree whether they are biologically capable of having children or not…Our findings depart from research conducted in the 1970s, which found that childfree adults tended to arrive at their decision later in life after postponing parenthood for many years. Earlier decisions may reflect changing norms toward parenthood and an increasing recognition and acceptance of a childfree lifestyle.
Before you ask? The study does in fact distinguish between people who haven’t decided yet, and those who can’t have children for medical reasons.
The bad news: this means 20% of Americans aren’t going to be bringing anyone into the world to take care of them – literally, financially, politically any other way – when they get to the stage of their life when they need help. Someone else’s kids will be taking care of all that – from paying Medicare taxes to literally changing their diapers.
The good news: They are disproportionally, although not completely or overwhelmingly – in Blue America.
August 8th, 2022 at 11:29 am
Possible incoming Berg’s Law: “The future belongs to those who reproduce.”
August 8th, 2022 at 11:57 am
if the Japanese animal studies on long term effects of the “vaccines” Phizer, Moderna, etc have been pushing is any indication the accumulation of the mRNA material in brain, thyroid, and reproductive organ tissues is any indication that 20% may cease to be self-selecting.
August 8th, 2022 at 12:18 pm
I admire the young people who are choosing not to have children. Yes, one can pop out a baby anytime, but to have the maturity to know it isn’t right for you, or that you can’t afford it at this moment, shows good judgment.
August 8th, 2022 at 1:12 pm
Emery;
I also applaud people that choose not to have children, because they know that they wouldn’t be good parents, etc.
That said, in my experience, I’ve found that if people wait until they can “afford” children, they will never have them. That was also true for my wife and I. We were married for five years before we decided to just go for it. Others in our peer group, which included neighbors in virtually identical life circumstances, ended up at the same conclusion.
August 8th, 2022 at 3:17 pm
rAT, your parents were miserable examples of leftist trash.
How could your thot of a mother not only make use of her RIGHT to flush your bloody remains down Dr. Mengele’s toilet, she didn’t even have the decency to give birth to a mulatto.
Antifa should burn their crappy little shack down and salt the Earth it stood on. Then BLM should erect a large black fist statue there.
August 8th, 2022 at 4:00 pm
As for “waiting until you can afford to have children”, that is a very elusive target. When do you have “enough money”?
For my wife and I, we didn’t have a choice. She was pregnant a month after we were married, even though she’d had endometriosis and a tubal ligation 5 years earlier. We were underemployed and didn’t even have health insurance at the time. We were even advised that in those circumstances it would be best to have an abortion. We carried on anyway, and our daughter – and the second one that came later – have been the greatest things that have happened to us, and a source of pride (and grandchildren). (We also managed to “pay off” our first-born’s hospital bill by the time she was three.)
August 8th, 2022 at 4:16 pm
People don’t need to have a reason why they don’t want kids. Period. And that should be reason enough. All this “I don’t want kids because…” stuff elides a larger issue; whether or not adults have social value without marrying/entering into a long-term partnership and procreating.
Also very interested in why “I’d rather adopt or foster” isn’t another part of the conversation.
MBerg’s blog post does nothing to further that conversation.
We should celebrate the fact that more women do not feel compelled to have children and don’t lose their identity by not having children. I love my kids more than anything, but raising kids is hard and not for everyone.
August 8th, 2022 at 5:40 pm
I admire the young people who are choosing not to have children. Yes, one can pop out a baby anytime, but to have the maturity to know it isn’t right for you, or that you can’t afford it at this moment, shows good judgment.
Given that it’s mostly the left that’s choosing to be child-free, I can simplify this a bit:
Stupid people shouldn’t breed
Seriously, one of the most dangerous things that’s happened in our country is that Social Security, Medicare, and other factors have persuaded too many people that the ordinary hallmarks of adult life–employment, marriage, and having children–are not in fact important. The end result is a generation of sexually mature but emotionally infantile people living in relative isolation from those around them.
Put more bluntly, there is a certain point where single people ought to ask themselves “why am I not settling down?”, and childless married couples ought to ask themselves “why don’t we open ourselves to children?”. The alternative is, really, a lonely death without visitors in the nursing home in the future.
August 8th, 2022 at 6:56 pm
“ I love my kids more than anything, but raising kids is hard and not for everyone.”
And being fathered by a mentally ill, congenital liar and failure is hard as can be seen by those kids that shunned you. And the wife that divorced your pathetic ass.
August 8th, 2022 at 7:15 pm
Looking forward to reading the first comments (by Kevin Williamson) from NR gaslighting about the FBI raid on Mar A Lago. And AllahPundit. And the pedo-boys at Bulwark.
I’m sure the Trump skeptics have all sorts of reasons to not be concerned.
August 8th, 2022 at 7:17 pm
… oh, yeah, I’ve heard that the Powerline boys are working on a very serious, maybe even grumpy, research piece about this raid.
August 8th, 2022 at 7:35 pm
The conservative GOP will send a cross memo to the FBI over this raid.
Might even be a “damn” tossed in.
Seriously, if you don’t get it yet, you’re beyond all hope.
August 8th, 2022 at 7:47 pm
^ But abortion! And Ukraine! And Putin! And transgender/gay childhood sexuality experts!
August 8th, 2022 at 7:55 pm
Interesting that the people who believe in science also believe that being human has some purpose other than reproduction.
August 8th, 2022 at 8:35 pm
And yes, (ex-)NR speaks.
David French @DavidAFrench
A note about “banana republics.”
Yes, corrupt regimes politicize prosecutions. But corrupt regimes also permit powerful people to break the law with impunity.
If the legal and evidentiary grounds for a search exist, then even a former president *should* be searched.
Phew. I feel much better now about this raid. Still need a pat on the head from Mr Williamson tho’.
August 8th, 2022 at 9:45 pm
French is correct to a point, but reality is that the FBI couldn’t be bothered to issue a single subpoena in the case of Hilliary’s illegal server, so it seems pretty clear that this is one of those “law for thee but not for me” cases. The FBI’s justification so far appears to be that classified information was in the President’s files, so Hilliary’s case is very appropriate here.
August 8th, 2022 at 9:51 pm
The big difference here is that the President can unilaterally declassify documents, but a Secretary of State cannot. So the FBI is on extremely thin footing here.
August 9th, 2022 at 1:28 am
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August 9th, 2022 at 7:10 am
The fact that the law applies to the president, and not just the rest of us, is a feature of democracy, not a bug.
August 9th, 2022 at 4:15 pm
👆🏻What law applies, fuckwit? Cite the law you’re referring to.
August 9th, 2022 at 4:29 pm
Just read the the negro who shot up the MOA, had received TWO suspended sentences last year for carrying a pistol. He received one pardon while he was awaiting another trial for the same crime, plus fleeing the cops.
The degenerates are in control of Minnesota; the law is what they say it is. Right now, low IQ, violent black men are immune from prosecution.
Enjoy, Patriots!